Watershed Services; Stream Restoration Manager

Who We Are

McCormick Taylor, Inc. is a full-service civil engineering firm providing creative design, planning, and environmental solutions to the challenges of everyday life. Since 1946, we’ve focused on our relationships with people—our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our culture matters because our people matter. We strive to create pathways for career advancement that suit the individual. We embrace hybrid work flexibility and the cultural shift toward a greater work-life balance.

We’ve grown over 75 years and 17 offices by building our team around people that share our passion for meaningful and impactful work.

McCormick Taylor is seeking an experienced Manager/Sr. Manager for our Watershed Services team in our growing Baltimore, MD office. The role leads a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about their work. The ideal candidate has 12+ years of experience with design and management of stream restoration projects and other projects that support water quality and MS4 compliance, plus solid knowledge of fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, stream ecology, and stream assessment principles.

The candidate should have experience interfacing with Maryland state and municipal/county clients, managing work under local on-call contracts for environmental design services, and may include work in adjacent states and District of Columbia. Job title and compensation are commensurate with depth of design, project management, and leadership experience.

The Watershed Services Manager will lead a team of junior and mid-level environmental designers and project managers performing assessment and design of small to large stream restoration projects, and other water quality projects, from conceptual design through development of advertisement packages for construction. The candidate will develop and maintain working relationships with local clients, manage contracts and team workload, develop proposals, and interface with our Water Resources and Natural Resources teams to partner on design and proposal efforts.

The position involves office and occasional field work primarily in Maryland, DC, and northern Virginia, overseeing physical and biological field surveys of streams, evaluating existing conditions, conducting functional assessments, developing restoration design solutions, and overseeing environmental restoration construction. Some travel in the Mid‑Atlantic region is likely.

• Lead environmental restoration design projects (including but not limited to stream, wetland, and shoreline restoration projects)
• Development, project management, and QC of reports, construction plans, specifications, and construction cost estimates in support of design, assessment, and monitoring efforts
• Supervision and performance of field work including but not limited to geomorphic assessment, natural resource inventories, and watershed inventories and assessments
• Leadership of the local Watershed Services project teams, including mentorship, client communication and participation in marketing and business development

• B.S. or M.S. in a relevant engineering or science field (e.g., Civil, Environmental, Ecological, Biosystems). P.E. a plus but not required
• 12+ professional years of experience
• Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Ability to work both collaboratively in a team environment and independently
• Project design and management experience related to stream, wetland, living shoreline, and/or other water quality initiatives
• Experience performing field work for geomorphic assessments, stream functions assessment/ecological uplift potential, environmental construction oversight, and post‑construction monitoring
• Experience completing MS4/TMDL credit calculations using Chesapeake Bay Program protocols (preferred)
• Ability to work in physically challenging outdoor settings
• Experience working in the Mid‑Atlantic region (Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania) (preferred)
• Experience with HEC‑RAS and other hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and analysis software (preferred)
• Experience…